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2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Saturday 26 February 2011

Belém: Mosteiro dos Jeronimos and Torre de Belém

Part of the monastery through the trees
Details from the monastery's facade


While in Belém we visited the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos de Santa María de Belém and strolled along to the Torre de Belém via the Discoveries Monument celebrating the exploits of Vasco da Gama and other explorers.

Torre de Belém


Detail from Tagus facing facade

Opening at the top of the Torre (illustrates amazing zoom on Canon PowerShot SX 210 IS)

Part of the Torre de Belém with the 25th April Bridge in background

Looking across the Tagus to Porto Brandao

1 comment:

Luc Charlier said...

Dr. Jim, up there on the river Tejo, I completed your prescription today, the last « tablet » being Philippe Delesvaux’s Clos du Papillon 1993 (St Aubin, as you well know). A very odd wine indeed. We had an off-dry Vouvray yesterday evening (La Cave à la Biche 2004) and Christine asked me: “Is it the same as yesterday turned sweet”? A candid question if ever there was one but I can see her point. Her second remark was: “It tastes of iron.” She’s right, like when you’ve brushed your teeth with excessive vigor (the cation in hemoglobin being Fe3+ as everyone know). All in all, a very intriguing wine: golden-orange, very resiny nose (and raisiny as well), like beewax candle, and tons of exotic fruit (mango, overripe pineapple, papaya). In the end, a wonderful acidity. I think it should have waited another 10 years, but enjoyable still.